3/30/26
A not-too-short love letter to “a love letter to 1980s Oakland.”
3/24/26
What happens when we say, “When it finally happens...”
3/7/26
Chris Thile shocks and awes in Berkeley as a new war dawns in Iran.
2/16/26
More books should be like Frank T. Marquardt's “Hop Fight,” and, swear to god, we'd say that even if he weren't a paying member of this site.
1/28/26
On Ryan Coogler's sins and the kinds of performances that attract vampires.
12/11/25
I scraped the vibes on BART for the current tech marketplace in paranoia, and lived to tell you what I saw
11/17/25
Not much.
10/22/25
A Tale of Two Murals on Telegraph Avenue, Aaron Cometbus's “The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah,” and Praising the Emptiness
10/16/25
A review of matter out of place, at Huchiun Park in Emeryville.
9/4/25
Contemplating longevity and bedtime with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, UC Theatre, Last Week
6/2/25
Review of a free book pile: Lawton Avenue, Upper Rockridge